Show I CALIFORNIAN IE TRI TRIES E 1 POPULARIZING PEAR Thinks Avocado Will Come Com Into General Favor NEW EW YORK Dec l 13 William 15 William A A. Spinks of Monrovia l Cal who is at atthe atthe atthe the Waldorf Astoria storla hotel hote expects to bring the avocado or alligator pear into general use as a j round year fruit and at about the same price now being paid for tor Calf California Cornia oranges Instead of ot 75 cents or 1 now demanded in to inthe the hotels Mr Spinks has been ex experimenting experimenting experimenting ex- ex by budding and grafting the many varieties of the avocado pear at his big farm near Los LoS' Angeles forthe for tor forthe the last twelve years and has 1145 produced produced produced pro pro- a hard hardy type of twelve to sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen ounces of very rich flavor and 25 per Ier cent oil value The big point in favor tavor of the California Call Call- fornia pear will be that it is harvested In th the spring and tile the supply wil wit continue ton con until fall while the supply now from Crom Guatemala and Florida arrives during durin the winter months He has had the cooperation of Luther Burbank at his Ills home near San Francisco and the latter Is successfully producing the avocado pear at that northern point The avocado pear pear has been proved by bv elaborate tests at the Berkeley university university uni- uni j laboratories to be of ot high food value ranking ln next to the olive In oil value alue and its fat being most moot digestible digestible digesti- digesti ble said Mr Spinks It came to usi us I and from l Mexico seedlings 1 and P procured for a i In long n n Guatemala u time lh a it I I Iwas was classed e as a tropical l fruit Jahr These I countries sn i in fact have g many varieties varie- varie ties lIls some grown at feet above the sea level and so adaptable for growing here but this fact was not nol learned until a com comparatively para lively short time ime ago We Ye have been successful in grafting the hardier varieties and the I e have havo been watched with I interest by all In southern southern south south- south south-I ern California li The pear grows on trees bearing after thre three years jears ears and living near ty five A Rood tree will bear 2500 OO to the fruit maturing constantly through the spring and summer months This reverses the season when the fruit Cruit is now received from Florida and Guatemala so that a constant supply I will be In the market and instead of ot the 50 50 or more per box now paid the fruit u should o soon be down to the the cost i of good o oranges n oe Mr Spinks has searched the world for information on the avocado pear even visiting the Philippines where Itis it itis its I i is s abundant but there finding that only the tropical varieties were grown from seeds procured originally in Guatemala Gua Gua- I The highlands of Guatemala produced the best buds for grafting he said and MId this type was almost unknown unknown unknown un- un un un- I known here as ships touching at seaports seaports seaports sea sea- ports only procured the nearby grown pear The real name of the pear is ahuacate although the department of agriculture simplified the name to I avocado |